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| Nigerians waiting to buy fuel |
By Tim Tochukwu
For Biafra Choice writers
Nigerian government has increased the price of Premium
Motor Spirit (PMS), known generally as petrol. They branded it as removal of
subsidy on the product. Minister of state for petroleum product, Emmanuel Ibe
Kachikwu told his bewildered countrymen that they as citizens were not
benefitting from the subsidy, and so government had to remove it. The price of
the product was therefore increased from N87 to N145 per litre.
Many Biafrans, who spoke to Biafra Choice Writers on
the removal, took time to mock the Nigerian government saying that it has once
again shown itself as a satanic, lying government, which would never tell its
people the truth.
Johnson Chijioke, who is an official of Indigenous
People of Biafra (IPOB) in Aba, Abia State in Biafraland said it was all
deceit. According to him, the government had hoarded the product for more than
six months (the longest in the country’s history) just to force the people to
accept the new price increase.
He then declared that branding what was done as
subsidy removal was the greatest joke of the century. “Did you believe them’ he
queried, “Don’t you know that manufacturing lies and deceiving the gullible is
their business in government. Instead of telling people that they were
increasing the price of the product, they said they had removed subsidy. Did
Obasanjo not play them the same game in the past?”
He wanted to know how it was possible to remove
subsidy and still fix price. “They were not subsidizing the cow meat we eat.
Why have they not fixed price for it?” he queried further.
There are many Biafrans who hold this view, and who
said that it served the people right who chose to believe falsehood rather than
the truth.
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